Specific Rim

I was making my case to go see what looks like the BEST summer movie EVER – Pacific Rim.  Rissa needed to do her due diligence. 

“Who’s in it?”

“Who’s in it?   Who are you?  Roger Ebert?”

“Who’s Roger Ebert?”

*face palm*

“I don’t know,” says David.  “It looks pretty cheesy.”

“Come on guys – it’s a crazy-ass,  summer action movie,  pretty much MADE for teenaged boys.”

David shoots me a look.

“I’m serious.  Guillermo Del Toro said he made it for 12 year old boys.”

Rissa starts to perk up.   “I like crazy-ass action.”  Then she looks a little chagrined.

“If I’m being honest, I thought it was Specific Rim.”

“Oh, you mean like, ‘This is the specific rim where the massive robots are going to fight the ginormous alien monsters.’  That kind of specific?”

“Yep.”

“Totally makes sense.”

ps:  DO NOT see Pacific Rim, if you are the type who wants realism or high art in your movies – this is not the film for you.  DO see Pacific Rim if you enjoy grand fromage in your summer cinema.  This is possibly one of the cheesiest – we’re talking a wheel of Brie, some Gorgonzola and Wensleydale shoulder to shoulder with Gouda and Emmental and then slathered in Chèvre – kind of cheese.  There are lines that are unintentionally laugh out loud funny with acting delivery that is… Independece Day-esque.  There’s heart-felt with gumption with a twist of Henry V’s St. Crispin’s Day speech.  This is like Top Gun, but instead of fighter jets you have big-ass robots and instead of Russians, you have big-ass alien monsters.  And damn was it fun to watch!